Sowmiya Anbumani

Sowmiya Anbumani (born 1971) is an Indian politician and environmental activist from Tamil Nadu. She is a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Dharmapuri Assembly constituency representing Pattali Makkal Katchi.

Early life and education

Sowmiya is born in Chennai. Her maternal grandfather, K. Vinayakam was a Congress MLA from Tiruttani. She married Anbumani Ramadoss, the senior leader of the Patali Makkal Katchi and together they have three daughters. She went to Hindu Senior Secondary School in Triplicane and completed her schooling at Adarsh Vidyalaya. She did her graduation at Stella Maris College, Chennai in sociology and passed out in 1990. After her post-graduation at Madras University in 1992, she did her doctoral studies in Sociology and Environmental Sciences after some gap, at the Madurai Kamaraj University in 2019.

Career

Sowmiya is an environmental activist and a sociologist. She has been editing a Tamil monthly environmental magazine, Pasumai Thayagam Sutru Choozal, since 2002. She also serves as an advisor to Makkal TV. Her main opponent is expected to be V Ilangovan of Premalatha Vijayakanth's DMDK. She also contested from Dharmapuri Lok Sabha constituency in the 2024 Lok Sabha election on PMK ticket. She was part of a poll by a news outlet that alleged family politics.